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Not exactly what you asked for, but I think it can accomplish the same purpose:
https://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch/compare/apache:1.0.1...cloudant:master
Best, Adam
On Nov 27, 2010, at 5:27 AM, Robert Newson wrote:
> I like the Debian approach where they maintain a patchset against a
> pristine upstream tarball.
>
> I'd particularly like to see the bigcouch variant of couchdb expressed
> that way, it would allow new developers to see where bigcouch diverges
> and it would allow couchdb developers to easily incorporate generally
> useful patches.
>
> B.
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 22:15, Noah Slater <nslater@apache.org> wrote:
>>> If we have a checksum, what's the point?
>>>
>>> Why not just include the original source the checksum is taken from?
>>
>> The point is keeping very exact track of what the source is. And the
>> point is making it easy for distributors to build without the bundled
>> dependencies. It would be great to also ship an artefact without the
>> bundled deps, but that might be a tad too much work...
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dirkjan
>>